Guest Instructor/Consultant
Lee Campe
Lee Campe is a proven Six Sigma deployment leader with a wide array of expertise in all facets of business. He also has extensive experience in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).
Prior to starting Performance Excellence, Lee was a Master Black Belt (MBB) for the Home Depot, where he was responsible for coaching employees and mentoring projects across the US. Projects Lee mentored provided the company with over $200 million in savings.
Prior to the Home Depot, Lee was the Vice President and Master Black Belt for JP Morgan Chase in New York. His responsibilities included coaching and training Champions, Black Belts, Green Belts, and management in the DMAIC and DFSS methodologies. During his tenure, Lee trained over 100 Champions and mentored three enterprise wide projects that identified over $20 Million in potential savings.
As an MBB and Director at Cordis Corporation, a $1.3 billion Johnson and Johnson company, Lee was responsible for driving the implementation of Six sigma companywide. Charged with the goal of making Six Sigma part of the corporate culture, Lee was ultimately responsible for saving the company over $6 million annually. He also built the company’s transactional Six Sigma curriculum; developed the six sigma project database using DFSS for all of Johnson and Johnson; and trained and certified a JnJ acquisition in Haifa, Israel.
Previously, Lee worked as an MBB for General Electric Power Systems (GEPS) where he trained employees at all levels on GE’s Six Sigma programs. He mentored over 75 projects from start to finish and conducted a complete redesign of the Commercial Quality Design for Six Sigma (CQDFSS) training process for non-technical associates. He also trained over 350 associates in DMAIC and CQDFSS on behalf of GEPS.
Lee was first trained as a Black Belt at Penske Logistics, where he led and facilitated cross-functional teams to solve problems and increase productivity/reduce costs and also served as a project manager, consultant, and trainer. One of his projects at Penske realized a return on an investment of $12.5M within nine months and led to a cost avoidance of $2.4 million in the first year.
Education/Certification
Lee holds an Executive M.B.A earned while serving as a captain in the US Army in Vicenza, Italy. He served over 12 years in the US Army and is a graduate of the elite US Army Ranger School. Lee is an Adjunct professor in the MBA program at Georgia Tech school of Management and remains an annual guest professor on the topic of six sigma for an Executive MBA program in Asolo, Italy.
John Baniszewski
John Baniszewski is currently the Deputy Project Manager of Resources (DPM/R) for NASA’s Exploration Communications and Navigation Systems Project. He previously served as the DPM/R for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration Project (MLCD), and as a Financial Manager within the Structure and Evolution of the Universe (SEU) Program at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His responsibilities within those projects have included project management, cost estimating, budget development and execution, proposal development, and formulation planning. He also has extensive experience in procurement, having served as a Procurement Manager and Contracting Officer on many NASA Projects.
Mr. Baniszewski has 30 years of business management experience with such satellite projects as MLCD, Landsat, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Earth Observing System (EOS), Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRSS), and the NASA/NOAA Meteorological satellites which are used for weather monitoring and forecasting. While serving as the Procurement Manager for these projects, he was responsible for the negotiation and award of more than $6B worth of NASA contracts. He also worked directly for NASA Goddard’s Procurement Officer as the Center’s senior expert in the fields of cost analysis and negotiation. He is very active in NASA’s mentoring program. On weekends, he works at the Gettysburg National Military Park as a Licensed Battlefield Guide.
Mr. Baniszewski also has extensive experience in developing and teaching training programs in Project Management, Procurement, and Leadership Development. In the past five years, he has conducted over sixty training sessions ranging from one hour to three days for over two thousand attendees.
Mr. Baniszewski received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University. He is a two-time recipient of the Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award, and a five-time recipient of NASA’s Acquisition Improvement Award.